8 Best Articles on Racism
The most useful articles on racism from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Racism Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on racism by Refind users in 2023 so far.
- Ignoring Racism in Schools Actually Increases Prejudice (Opinion)
- Racism seen as root of water crisis in Mississippi capital
- Afropessimism, or Black Studies as a Class Project
- Computer science has a racism problem: these researchers want to fix it
- Elon Musk backs Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams following racist tirade
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on racism—all under 10 minutes.
Elon Musk backs Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams following racist tirade
Tesla and Twitter chief tweets that ‘the media is racist’ after hundreds of newspapers drop Adams’s comic strip
The Family Who Tried to End Racism Through Adoption
Bob and Sheryl Guterl saw their family as a kind of “ark for the age of the nuclear bomb” and attempted to gather “two of every race.”
Racism seen as root of water crisis in Mississippi capital
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Carey Wooten spent nearly seven weeks hunting for safe drinking water for herself, her two children and three dogs after clocking out each day as a Taco Bell manager, so Gov.
Ignoring Racism in Schools Actually Increases Prejudice (Opinion)
Good intentions aren't enough to address race and racism in schools; good practice is.
«Educators have the moral and professional responsibility to teach and lead on issues of race and racism in schools—it’s what children need, what most parents want, and what compelling research calls for.»
Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
We are leading Nature on a journey to help decolonize research and forge a path towards restorative justice and reconciliation.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on racism.
Computer science has a racism problem: these researchers want to fix it
Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society.
Afropessimism, or Black Studies as a Class Project
Conviction that identifying (actually, often constructing) and addressing racial disparities will improve the general black American population’s material circumstances is rooted in the upward…
The Long Legacy of a Company Town
In North Carolina, residents confront decades of racism and industrialization that still impact their community today.
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